Subject: Re: [drugwar] NYTimes on Souder's stupid anti-education law Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 12:03:18 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 07:12:56 -0500, Preston Peet wrote: >=A0"Mr. Souder, who wrote the law, says the Clinton and Bush= administrations >=A0have both turned it on its head, taking a penalty meant to= discourage >=A0current students from experimenting with drugs and using it to= punish people >=A0trying to get their lives back on track. " On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 07:24:04 -0800, Ethan Straffin wrote: >=A0"Yet Mr. Souder was amply warned that his sloppy lawmaking >=A0would have precisely such consequences. " This is what is becoming known as the Dictator Fallacy ( From http://www.realcampaignreform.org/ newsletter ) : >=A0Harry Browne and Michael Cloud (I'm not sure who is due >=A0credit here) call this the Dictator Fallacy - "If only I >=A0was King." This fallacy is the belief that the reforms I >=A0value the most will be implemented just as I wished. But >=A0every bill in Washington is political - to be decided by >=A0politicians and implemented by bureaucrats - and they won't >=A0consult you. The threat of denial of Federal support can exist only to the= extent that it has displaced private individual scholarship and loan= funds . The John Perry Fund http://www.raiseyourvoice.com/perryfund/ = was created specifically to provide "Scholarships for Students= Denied Federal Financial Aid Because of Drug Convictions" . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- Libertarian Presidential Candidates =A0:= http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm Restore our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02004/03/13 11:40:41 AM